Armadillo. Its got a comical ring to it. It’s also a fitting name for a mammal with armoured plating protecting his little body and a range of other defences he deploys against the world of problems he faces. The fellow scuttles about with alarming pace
Por Kath Lowrie, publicado el 27 de agosto de 2012 en “Big Toe Blog” (Para los niños entre 5 y 12 años), Patitas en la Patagonia Key words: Camuflaje, Pampas, Chile, Argentina, Agachera, Perdicita Patagónica Ayer corríamos por un paisaje chato, pintado de amarillos, marrones y verdes. Matas de pastos pinchudos y matorrales espinosos se …
Por Katharine Lowrie: Notebook, Opinión: Miércoles 29 de agosto de 2012 a las 9:55 hs. ¿Qué imágenes evoca la Patagonia? ¿Una estepa helada? Sí, también eso, pero mientras navegábamos por los fiordos de Chile descubrimos que también hay selvas exuberantes y aguas de color turquesa. Ahora, mientras corremos empujando nuestro carrito reciclado atravesando el invierno …
quick update from the satphone – we are at the junction between two roads, one leads directly on our chosen route, a neat road that leads to a path through a velley into chile and a boat awaits us to cross lago o’higens on the 8th September. The other involves a 800km workaround through Argentina …
We are currently minutes away from resuming the run, and what happens next promises to be interesting. Last week we had to cross to Argentina to bypass the Campo Hielo Sur (Southern Ice Field) , a dramatic natural barrier which literally slices through Chile and makes the country only pasable by 3 day ferry overland …
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According to the plan we laid out for the first month we should be running machines by now, easily chewing up 100 mile weeks – are we? The last section has been a real challenge for our bodies, yet again forced to take 10 days worth of supplies for a lack of
On the desolate and icy Ruta 9 from Morro Chico to Puerta Natales, Chile, traffic is hardly nose to tail. In fact since we set off this morning we have seen only a handful of 4×4´s and the odd bus lumbering past. They scrutinise us as we do them, nods and waves are exchanged but this …
. . . . where we´ll be heading next across the wild windy pampas!! we´ll be in touch!! View Larger Map
I am writing this blog from my fingertips in the warmth and safety of a pitstop in a B&B, but in reality it was etched in my memory 4 days before. I am in the back of a 4×4 pickup being whisked along in the dark with the Magellan Straights to my left, my …
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